Mar
9
I’ve seen some pretty odd home theater installations in my day. Everything from display’s mounted just a few inches below the ceiling line to projectors placed right next to central-air vents (not so bad in the summer but oh boy does it cut down on life expectancy come winter) but the most common home-theater-gone-bad scenarios I see are bizarre speaker placements.
From speakers hanging off the rafters to speakers laying on the floor and everything in-between, speakers are winding up in all sorts of positions they were never intended for. Without getting into every advanced speaker placement theory known to mankind, I did want to share one (probably my best to date) speaker placement tip, keep the tweeters at ear level.
Woofers and even mid-range drivers to some extent are omni-directional, i.e. within reason they’re somewhat forgiving of placement errors, tweeters not so much. You’ll want the tweeters of your front three speakers (at a minimum) at or near the same height of your ears when seated in your listening position. One of the most noticeable improvements you’ll hear is better placement and localization or in plain English, a sharper more focused overall sound.
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